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27 This is the man about whom it is written,

‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
    who will prepare your way before you.’[a]

28 I tell you, no one has ever been born who is[b] greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

29 By having been baptized with John’s baptism, all the people who listened, including the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 7:27 Cf. Mal 3:1; Exod 23:20
  2. Luke 7:28 Lit. one among those born of women have been
  3. Luke 7:29 Or judgment